Do you or anyone else here believe there is anything to what Bruce mentioned in his speech on YouTube, the Overview, about the pilot delibertely dropping him in the Colombia River?  Or do you think they have absolute evience that he jumped farther to the East?

You really need to read the transcripts, crew testimony, and a lot of information about this case. this can all be found in our vault.

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Do you or anyone else here believe there is anything to what Bruce mentioned in his speech on YouTube, the Overview, about the pilot delibertely dropping him in the Colombia River?  Or do you think they have absolute evience that he jumped farther to the East?

You really need to read the transcripts, crew testimony, and a lot of information about this case. this can all be found in our vault.

Thing is Bruce has stated that the living pilot keeps changing his story so he says to look at what he said in the book many years ago?  I am sure Cooper made this flight in practice lets say before he did the crime?  Would you agree with that speculation?  Google says its a 57 minute flight today?  Its about just over twice as long as from Buffalo to Rochester, in my area and that is like a 20 minute flight now. I believe I flew from Baltimore to Rochester in about 45 minutes so the speed is likely far better today than in 1971.  I have watched just about every YouTube show on this case and there are many.  That is a pretty good place to start to gather data, and I knew of this case long before the internet existed.  So just because I am new to this particular forum does not mean I am completely in the blind.   

Just found a YouTube video posted 3 days ago where a skydiver tries to recreate Cooper's jump by hitting a target a quarter mile by a quarter mile.

With a modern steerable square parachute even a relatively inexperienced skydiver shouldn't have any trouble doing that in daylight.

But doing it at night with no ground references of any consequence, in light rain, over unknown terrain, he probably wouldn't be able to even identify the target.

This really key:

Pick some random man off the street. Put him on a jetliner. Give him chute and tell him to jump out of the back. At night. In cold, wet weather. Over unknown terrain. Add 30 lbs of money tied to him.

Does he survive?

Yeah Martin McNally's is a prime example, as inexperienced as they come, no training, only used a reserve chute not even a main/back. He ended up going Into a spin and he still made it.

So the show True Crime from two years ago states that the plane was ON AUTOPILOT!!!  And the exact route was known?  First time and only time I heard this?   Is this wrong? 

Unless someone can come up with a logical answer to the Hicks placard being from flight 305 I believe this is no longer evidence in this case?

Since I made the drop device for one of my drones I'm still going to drop both at the same time just to see how the two act in a free fall.

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Unless someone can come up with a logical answer to the Hicks placard being from flight 305 I believe this is no longer evidence in this case?

Since I made the drop device for one of my drones I'm still going to drop both at the same time just to see how the two act in a free fall.

This is compelling stuff, Shutter. However, it does beg the question of a how a placard from a jetliner stairwell ended up in the woods under the V23. I guess what I am saying is:  if it didn't come from 305, where did it come from?

That's another hard question. kind of put Hicks under the microscope. to really put the whole thing to rest, we need the drawings showing EXACTLY where it goes. not one single photo can be found of this placard.